Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-08-10
FARM AND HOUSEHOLDS.
THE ONE ARMED s. w u
REL, RED OAK (IowA) SUN.

to verse in this graceful manner by Rev. MIR. !
Crofts:
'Let the witness be sworn hold mp your hand!'
And up hia loft his right hand instsnd. u
"Your right hand, sir!" came the startling COM
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II can't s'r! it's down In Georgia. he said.
Through tho court these flashed an electrical
Forgotten were clients and statutes and laws;
For an instant all was brea,hl lJsdl,
And then came the thunder Of hearty ap-
plause.
For right he had given his precious right hand,
Upward toward heaven he had raised 1t for
That mercy and truth might dwell in the land
And our flag ever float in splendors of day.
All hall to the witness! hail to tho brave!
Let the wales echo hs gallant reply;
For he gave up his arm his country to save.
His cherished right arm, meath Georgia's blue
sky.
God bless the man of the empty coat sleeve;
God bless him, and scatter his path with aow-
And at the close of life's war may heaven re-
ceive
This one-armed ch!valric hero OF ours.
THE RATION FOR PIGS.
In late bulletin Professor San
born makes some important deductions
from great number of feeding tests
carried on for several years, one of
which is that those who feed pigs. for
fourteen months throw away in unnec-
essary maintenance almost one and
half times as much food as the actual
food of growth and this waste amounts
in Missouri alone to something more
than $13,000,000. This deduction is
based on the fact that for a pound of
grain large hog weighing $50 pounds,
say, requires twice us much food as
one that weigs so pounds, and that in
general the cost of a pound of growth,
instead of being less after $50 pounds
is reached-as is generally believed in
is always greater. Having shown
that the. simple maintenance ration of
100 pound shoat may be less than 2
per cent of its weight, the tests prove
that slight advance upon this amount
OF food makes comparatively smaller
increase of weight than where sufficient
food is given to make pound or a
little more day. That is, it is econo-
my to feed young pigs up to that limit.
The food needed for this growth is
less than that needed for pure mainten-
ance and, therefore, the economy of
quick fattening. The daily growth in
creases up to weight of $50 to 200
pounds and the cost of pounds growth
increases with size until maturity, after
which this cost increases most rapidly.
Continuous growth up to the limit of
pound day is better than to have
examining periods. The sum of the
matter is that it is most profitable to
market pigs young, and that every
shoat over or months old should be
banished. In regard to specific foods
it appears that skim milk and meals
are the most effective rations fed; that
middlings is the best single food and
that cob meal, when the cobs are finely
ground, are as efficient food as clear
corn meal.
SQUASH SEED PLANTING.
Professor Halsted in the current num-
Der of Agricultural Science has an in
teresting study of the termination of
cucurbitaceous plants-i. e., plants of
the gourd family, including melons, Gu
cumbers, squashes, etc. The point
specially examined was the method of
removal of the tough coat from the
seed-leaves. We have not space to
describe the process by which special
appendage called by Darwin ga peg" is
made to hold fast to the seed coat while
the leaves are gradually withdrawn.
The practical application of the matter
is, however, that from its structural
popularity this relief is not so readily
effected when the seed is placed edge
wise in the ground. Gardeners often
prepare the hills for planting melons
and the like by smoothing them down
and then insert the seed edgewise-
which is the proper position for many
fiat seeds. In this instance, however,
the reverse is true. The best condition
for "the peg" performance is when the
seed is lying on its fiat side, just as it
would naturally fall. As the seeds are
large, and as an early removal of this
coat is an advantage, planters should
tako the hint and lay the seed fiat on
the leveled surface, and cover them
later with the required depth of earth.
RICHEST COMES LAST.
While in the number and arrange
ment of its cavities sponge somewhat
resembles the interior of the udder, in
one respect it is quite different. Thewalls
of the oavaties in the sponge are always
distended, whether filled or not, and if
compressed, at once spring back upon
being released from the pressure. The
walls of the milk tubes and reservoirs,
and the follicles or sacs at the extrem-
tiles of their branches, are always col
lapsed and in contact, except when
kept apart by having milk in them.
With this constant inclination in their
walls to be in contact, it must be evil
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